Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester and Congresswoman Sarah McBride (all D-Del.) announced their guests to President Trump’s scheduled address to a joint session of Congress. As the Trump administration works to gut federal agencies by summarily firing public servants, the federal delegation has invited impacted Delawareans as their guests. Senator Coons will host Rory Badger, a Seaford father and husband who previously was employed by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) office in Salisbury, Maryland. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired Badger last month without notice and without cause. Badger, a

Washington, D.C. – United States Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), both members of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, have reintroduced the Credit Union Board Modernization Act. The bipartisan legislation revises an antiquated federal law that requires credit union boards to meet every month. By reducing superfluous board meetings, the bill relaxes regulatory burdens and allows credit unions to focus on their core mission of providing financial services to their members. “It is far past time that the arcane requirements for credit unions are removed,” said Senator Blunt Rochester. “This bill is an essential step toward improving the functionality of credit unions up

Washington, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.)—founding co-chairs of the Senate’s first-ever Environmental Justice Caucus—urged EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to reopen the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR), which Duckworth and Booker led the charge to create, so the office can continue helping our most disadvantaged communities in rural, urban and tribal areas by improving access to clean drinking water, addressing legacy pollution that has led to higher cancer, asthma and death rates and more. Additionally, the Senators are demanding a more detailed explanation behind why the Trump Administration decided to abolish